office 365 Word won't let me type into a new document

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I've had Office 365 for a while now and all was good.

However for the last four weeks, or so, I have not been able to type into a new Word document. If I try to the pc just pings at me and refuses to type. No other office programme is doing this. If I open an old document, or save a new document before typing, close it then open it I can type into it.

I have Win 8 and have only installed updates from windows and new video drivers since the problem began.

I have deleted the normal template and let it recreate one on opening, but the problem still exists.

Any suggestions?

Stephen.

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Anonymous

I have solved the problem, but forgot to come on here and say how!

After playing about with the various options in Word I finally tried turning off the start screen that popped up when I started Word.

Not sure why, but now that it's turned off and a blank document opens straight away I can now type into a blank document again.

Stephen.

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Anonymous

2014-12-24T04:21:45+00:00

Thanks for the solution. I had this same problem on my Lenovo Yoga Pro. I was opening a new doc and then opened another new doc to write.
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Anonymous

2014-12-10T15:29:51+00:00

Funnily enough the fault can also be "fixed" by alt-tabbing out of word, and then back in.

Probably an update introducing a bug.
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Anonymous

2014-12-05T01:16:06+00:00

thanks bruh. Saved a bunch of time
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Anonymous

2014-12-02T03:47:05+00:00

Yes that worked for me also. Exited word & restarted.
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